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Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.

  • I'm not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun... Not unless I have to!

  • The NRA appears to have evolved into the lobby for gun and ammunition manufacturers rather than gun owners.

  • If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a person standing.

  • There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.

  • This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.

  • Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

  • We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

  • Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.

  • But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.

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